THE VIRGIN SUICIDES [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1999
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: With this debut feature, Sofia Coppola announced her singular vision, exploring the aesthetics of femininity while illuminating the interior lives of young women. An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s popular first novel, The Virgin Suicides conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and ennui in its story of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, stifled by the rules of their overprotective religious parents—as told through the collective memory of a group of men who were boys at the time and still yearn to understand what happened. Evoking its 1970s suburban setting through ethereal cinematography by Ed Lachman and an atmospheric score by Air, the film secured a place for its director in the landscape of American independent cinema and has become a coming-of-age touchstone.
• Cast: James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Michael Paré, Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito, A.J. Cook, Hanna Hall, Leslie Hayman, Chelse Swain, Anthony DeSimone, Lee Kagan, Robert Schwartzman, FourTee, Jonathan Tucker, Joe Roncetti, Hayden Christensen, Chris Hale, Joe Dinicol, Suki Kaiser, Dawn Greenhalgh, Allen Stewart-Coates, Sherry Miller, Jonathan Whittaker, Michèle Duquet, Murray McRae, Roberta Hanley, Paul Sybersma, Susan Sybersma, Peter Snider, Gary Brennan, Charles Boyland, Dustin Ladd, Kristin Fairlie, Melody Johnson, Sheyla Molho, Ashley Ainsworth, Courtney Hawkrigg, François Klanfer, Mackenzie Lawrenz, Tim Hall, Amos Crawley, Andrew Gillies, Mairlyn Smith, Sally Cahill, Tracey Ferencz, Scot Denton, Catherine Swing, Timothy Adams, Michael Michaelessi, Sarah Minhas, Megan Kennedy, Sandi Stahlbrand, Neil Girvan, Jaya Karsemeyer, Leah Straatsma, Mark Polley, Kirk Gonnsen, Marianne Moroney, Anne Wessels, Giovanni Ribisi, Derek Boyes, John Buchan, Mandy Lee Jones, Thomas Mars, Sofia Coppola, Jeffrey Eugenides
• Director: Sofia Coppola
• Runtime: 1:37
• Company: The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie